How To Install zgen on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zgen
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is zgen
zgen is:
zgen is a lightweight plugin manager for ZSH inspired by Antigen. The goal is to have a minimal overhead when starting up the shell because nobody likes waiting. The script generates a static init.zsh file which does nothing but sources your plugins and appends them to fpath. The downside is that you have to refresh the init script manually with zgen reset whenever you update your ~/.zshrc.
There are three methods to install zgen
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install zgen Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install zgen
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install zgen
Install zgen Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install zgen
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install zgen
Install zgen Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install zgen
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install zgen
How To Uninstall zgen on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the zgen
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove zgen
Uninstall zgen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall zgen
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove zgen
Remove zgen Configurations and Data
To remove zgen
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge zgen
Remove zgen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove zgen
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zgen
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zgen
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.